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A New Role for Museum Educators: Purpose, Approach, and Mindset, edited by Elizabeth Wood. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2023.  REVIEWED BY RINI SHIELDS   Elizabeth Wood’s A New Role for Museum Educators challenges us to take a critical look at theoretical foundations of museums’ educational purpose as well as new charges towards social justice and community inclusiveness. …

The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience, by Samuel J. Redman. New York: New York University Press, 2022. REVIEWED BY LAUREN FREIJE Museums exist in the context of the world around them. As museums have evolved to take their place as cultural institutions, they have been forced to respond to a multitude of …

Culture: The History of Us from Cave Art to K-Pop, by Martin Puchner. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.  REVIEWED BY SHANNON SUTTON  Culture: The History of Us from Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner follows the thread of art, religion, and society from paleolithic cave paintings in France to the …

Museum Education for Today’s Audiences: Meeting Expectations with New Models, edited by Jason L Porter and Mary Kay Cunningham. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.  REVIEWED BY SYDNEY COYNE  In the aftermath of 2020, museum professionals responded to drastic shifts in the field, reimaging their uses of technology and approaches to social inequities. Museum Education for …